2013-09-11, 00:25
I am having a hard time deciding between the Lenovo Q180/190 and Acer Veriton VN2620G. I have done a ton of research and can't really come up with a decided winner.
I am looking to retire my slimline PCs for nettops. My goal is to have a system that does not run as hot, not as noisy, lower power consumption, smaller form factor (for possibly mounting behind a wall-mounted LCD TV), and great XBMC compatibility and performance. I am currently getting good performance from my HP and Acer slimline HTPCs. I am not quite sure how the nettops will stack up performance wise with my current setups.
New nettop duties will dedicated to XBMC streaming and will be mainly SD content (DVD ISOs) from a wireless NAS and also internet content through XBMC addons. Both nettops will be connecting to wall-mounted LCD TVs using HDMI and the living room nettop will be connecting through a Yamaha 9.1 DTS receiver. Since the new nettops will strickly be wireless streaming boxes so I am not concerned with the size of the hard drive, memory, optical drive, or has an operating system. I am mostly looking for the best video performance. Both will be running Windows 7 and XBMC, Netflix and Hulu only.
Both of my current slimline HTPCs have nVidia graphics (geforce 9200 in the Acer and onboard 6150se in the HP). I just don't want to be disappointed in the video performance if choosing integrated Intel HD graphics or the slow performing Atom processors for running apps.
Looking to spend ~$200-300
Lenovo Q180:
Processor 2.13 GHz Atom D2700, Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6450A, DVDRW, Lenovo Enhanced Multimedia Remote N5902, Win7
Lenovo Q180:
Processor Atom D2550 processor (2 cores / 4 threads, 1.86GHz, 1MB cache), Graphics AMD Radeon HD 7450, DVDRW, Lenovo Enhanced Multimedia Remote N5902, Win7
Lenovo Q190:
Processor Celeron 887 1.5GHz 2GB 320GB, Graphics Intel HD, DVDRW, Lenovo Enhanced Multimedia Remote N5902, Win7
Veriton VN2620G-UC887L: (only $230!)
Processor Celeron 887 1.5GHz 2GB 320GB, Graphics Intel HD, no optical drive, standard USB keyboard and mouse Linux
I am looking to retire my slimline PCs for nettops. My goal is to have a system that does not run as hot, not as noisy, lower power consumption, smaller form factor (for possibly mounting behind a wall-mounted LCD TV), and great XBMC compatibility and performance. I am currently getting good performance from my HP and Acer slimline HTPCs. I am not quite sure how the nettops will stack up performance wise with my current setups.
New nettop duties will dedicated to XBMC streaming and will be mainly SD content (DVD ISOs) from a wireless NAS and also internet content through XBMC addons. Both nettops will be connecting to wall-mounted LCD TVs using HDMI and the living room nettop will be connecting through a Yamaha 9.1 DTS receiver. Since the new nettops will strickly be wireless streaming boxes so I am not concerned with the size of the hard drive, memory, optical drive, or has an operating system. I am mostly looking for the best video performance. Both will be running Windows 7 and XBMC, Netflix and Hulu only.
Both of my current slimline HTPCs have nVidia graphics (geforce 9200 in the Acer and onboard 6150se in the HP). I just don't want to be disappointed in the video performance if choosing integrated Intel HD graphics or the slow performing Atom processors for running apps.
Looking to spend ~$200-300
Lenovo Q180:
Processor 2.13 GHz Atom D2700, Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6450A, DVDRW, Lenovo Enhanced Multimedia Remote N5902, Win7
Lenovo Q180:
Processor Atom D2550 processor (2 cores / 4 threads, 1.86GHz, 1MB cache), Graphics AMD Radeon HD 7450, DVDRW, Lenovo Enhanced Multimedia Remote N5902, Win7
Lenovo Q190:
Processor Celeron 887 1.5GHz 2GB 320GB, Graphics Intel HD, DVDRW, Lenovo Enhanced Multimedia Remote N5902, Win7
Veriton VN2620G-UC887L: (only $230!)
Processor Celeron 887 1.5GHz 2GB 320GB, Graphics Intel HD, no optical drive, standard USB keyboard and mouse Linux